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SUMMARY:The 25th Katari Japanese Storytelling Show - Hina Doll Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto and the Toronto Storytelling Festival present\nThe 25th Katari Japanese Storytelling Show – Hina Doll Festival.\nJoin us for an afternoon of Japanese folk tales\, songs and stories at the 25th annual Katari Japanese Storytelling event. This family-friendly event is presented in cooperation with the Toronto Storytelling Festival. The Katari Japanese Storytellers programme includes traditional and contemporary stories accompanied by guitar renditions\, for visitors of all ages. \nAudience: Family\nAdmission: Free (RSVP required)\nWheelchair Accessibility: Yes \n**Registration will open in February 2018** \nProgramme: \n\nNatalie Vachon : Issun Boshi\nAisha Masaoka : A Boy in the Moon\nKoko Kikucho : Saburo\, the Eel Hunter\nYusuke Tanaka : Reiko’s Hina Dolls\nRui Umezawa : The Art of Fighting Without Fighting\nNoriko Yamamoto : Clown\n\n——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————– \nKoko Kikuchi Born in Tohoku\, in the Northeast region of Japan\, Koko has been involved in Katari since its inception. He specialized in the folktakes of his native region of Iwate. \nYusuke Tanaka Veteran translator\, writer and director of the Katari Storytellers since 1994\, he has been telling Ainu people’s stories and his own adaptations of Japanese folklore in many places including New York\, Seoul\, Kyoto\, Tokyo and Sapporo. \nNoriko Yamamoto A professional dancer\, mime\, silent storyteller\, and visual artist. Since moving to Toronto from Tokyo in 1994\, Noriko has added Nia dance exercise to her repertoire. She performs regularly at schools\, libraries\, festivals\, and at various other events. \nNathalie Vachon A writer/storyteller and painter whose work is described as whimsical\, magical and heartwarming. She lived in Osaka for a year and a half and loves to share\, hear stories and travel back into memories of Japan and Asia. \nRui Umezawa A Toronto writer and storyteller. His novel The Truth About Death and Dying was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize for Best First Book. His past participation in Katari inspired his most recent publication\, Strange Light Afar: Tales of the Supernatural from Old Japan. \nAisha Masaoka Aisha is excited to have the opportunity to perform with the Katari Storytellers again. She is a graduate of Humber College’s Theatre Performance Program. She recently moved to Listowel\, Ontario from Toronto and is enjoying the small town life. \n \n       \n  \n*** Registration is at capacity for this event. To join the waiting list please email library@jftor.org  RSVPs will be held until 10 minutes before the start of the event\, after which point patrons from the waiting list will be allowed in\, if space allows.
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/katari-japanese-storytelling-2018/
LOCATION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, 2 Bloor St. East\, 3rd Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 1A8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Directed by Japanese Women: RADIANCE
DESCRIPTION:RADIANCE 光\nThursday March 8th\, 2018 6:30 PM\n   \nDirected by Naomi Kawase\, 2017\n101 minutes\, Japanese with English subtitles\nMarch 8th is international women’s day and March is also Women’s history month\, and what better way to celebrate this than watching films made by Japanese women. Radiance is the first film to be featured in this series of four films by pre-eminent female filmmakers from Japan. \nRadiance is the stunning new film by director Naomi Kawase. The film is a beautiful drama about an encounter between two lost and wounded souls. Misako (Ayame Misaki) is able to capture the beauty of cinema through her words\, and shares this special gift by writing concise audio descriptions of films for the visually impaired. \nThe photographer Nakamori (Masatoshi Nagase) is going through a difficult point in life as he gradually loses his sight. The two are brought together as Misako’s cinematic poetry helps to shine light through the film and slowly win the hearts of the two main characters. \nRadiance was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2017 Cannes. At Cannes\, it won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. \nOther critically acclaimed films directed by Naomi Kawase are;  Shara (2003)\, The Mourning Forest (Jury Grand Prix\, 2007)\, Hanezu (2011)\, Still the Water (2014) and Sweet Bean (Un Certain Regard 2015). \nTo learn about other films in the DIRECTED BY JAPANESE WOMEN series\, click here >
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/radiance-naomi-kawase/
LOCATION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, 2 Bloor St. East\, 3rd Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 1A8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Workshop for Teaching Japanese Online 2: Making Your First Website
DESCRIPTION:オンライン日本語教師研修 2 「初めての ウェブサイト作成」のお知らせ\nこのコースを受けると、インターネットに詳しくない人でも、無料でシンプルなウェブサイトを作ることができ、 オンライン日本語コースのための広報の拠点を作ることができるようになります。 \nコース名：「オンライン日本語教師研修　初めての ウェブサイト作成」\nWorkshop for Teaching Japanese Online 2: Making Your First Website\n主催：国際交流基金トロント日本文化センター \n場所：オンライン（ご自宅から参加できます） \n参加用URL： 申し込んだ人にメールでお知らせします。 \n運営方法： \n\n　Youtubeの動画で予習\n　Zoom Cloud Meetingでリアルタイムのディスカッション（60分）\n　毎週課題あり\n　Google Classroomで課題の提出などを行います。\n\n日時： \n\n　3月8日、22日、29日、４月5日、12日（木）全5回\n　毎回午後8時から9時まで（東部標準時）\n\n受講費：無料 \n対象：カナダ在住の日本語教師、もしくは日本語話者（JLPTのN3以上） \n「行動中心アプローチによるオンライン日本語教師研修」に参加された方に引き続きご参加いただけることを希望しますが、前回参加できなかった方も大歓迎です。 \nICTのレベル：GmailやMS-Officeなどは使っているが、ウェブサイトを開設したことがないぐらいのレベル。ただし、自分のウェブサイトを持っている人も情報提供やアドバイスのために参加していただけるのなら大歓迎です！ \n必要なもの： \n\n　インターネット接続（ブロードバンド）\n　Googleアカウント（Google Classroomを使います）\n　マイクとカメラ（パソコンに内蔵のものがあればそれで充分です）\n　イヤホン（ハウリングを防ぐのに必要です）\n\n使用言語：簡単な日本語 \n講師：村上吉文（国際交流基金派遣日本語上級専門家、アルバータ州教育省日本語教育アドバイザー）\n講師紹介：2017年5月より国際交流基金日本語上級専門家としてアルバータ教育省に派遣。国際基督教大学卒業。主な著作に『しごとの日本語 IT業務編』（アルク 2008）のほか、ウェブマガジン「日本語教育いどばた」に「ソーシャルメディアをめぐる冒険」を連載中。ココ出版より『冒険家メソッド』を近日刊行予定。「むらログ」管理人。 \n内容： \n\n無料でシンプルなウェブサイト作成サービスの比較\n\n（Google Site、ペライチ、JIMDO、Wix、Wordpress）\n\n\n無料で使える画像の探し方（ごく簡単な著作権の知識）\nカバー写真の作り方（ごく簡単な画像編集）\n広報動画の作り方（ごく簡単な撮影と編集と埋め込み）\n振り返り\n\n本研修に関し、ご不明な点やご質問などございましたら、以下の担当までご連絡ください。\n 担当者：齋藤典子　nsaito@jftor.org　416‐966‐1600 ext. 224 \n  \n備考１：前回のコースは講師が専門家として情報提供する立場でしたが、今回はあくまでも経験者の一人としてファシリテーションを中心に行います。後は参加者の皆さん同士での情報交換による研修といたします。 \n備考２：この研修は国際交流基金トロント日本文化センターが資格を授与するものではありません。 \n備考３：このコースではリアルタイムの話し合いに参加できなかった人のために、話し合いを録画し、一定期間（約1週間ほど）オンラインにて公開いたします。ご自分の顔や声が録画、公開されることを希望されない方は、全体での話し合いの時はカメラとマイク（音声）を必ずミュート（オフ）にしてください。また、小グループに分かれての話し合いの時は、録画を希望されない参加者がいるグループでの話し合いは録画されないよう、講師はその方のいるグループには参加しません。
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/workshop180308/2018-03-08/
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SUMMARY:March Break Films: THE BOY AND THE BEAST
DESCRIPTION:March Break Films\nTHE BOY AND THE BEAST バケモノの子\n \n\nMarch 12\, 2018\, 1:00 PM > Spring Break!\n\n\n\nDirected by Mamoru Hosoda\, 2015 \n120 minutes\, Japanese with English subtitles \nBring the whole family during March break to watch this action packed adventure fantasy.\n\n\nThis is the latest feature film from award-winning Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda (The Girl Who Lept Through Time\, Summer Wars\, Wolf Children).\n\n\n\n\nCAST: \nYAKUSHO Koji Kumatetsu \nMIYAZAKI Aoi Kyuta (9 years old) \nSOMETANI Shota Kyuta (17 years old) \nHIROSE Suzu Kaede \nLily FRANKY Hyakushubo \nOIZUMI Yo Tatara \n\n Kyuta\, a young orphan living on the streets of Shibuya\, stumbles into a fantastic world of beasts\, and is taken in by a gruff\, rough-around-the-edges warrior beast named Kumatetsu\, who’s been looking for the perfect apprentice. Despite their constant bickering\, Kyuta and Kumatetsu begin training together and slowly form a bond as surrogate father and son. But when a deep darkness threatens to throw the human and beast worlds into chaos\, the strong bond between this unlikely pair will be put to the ultimate test-a final showdown that will only be won if the two can finally work together using all of their combined strength and courage.\n\n\n.\n\nWinner of the 2015 Japan Academy Award for Animation of the Year.\n\nFilm Festivals\, Awards\n2015 Toronto International Film Festival\, TIFF Kids\n2015 Japan Academy Award for Animation of the Year \n2015 San Sebastian International Film Festival\, Competition\n2015 Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia\, Anima’t \n\n\n \n\n  \n \nMEGANE > March 15\, 2018 1:00 PM by Naoko Ogigami \nEnjoy the family friendly film MEGANE which follows Taeko who is tired of urban life and decides to take a vacation on a small seaside town in southern Japan. She begins a journey of self discovery as she interacts with the quirky people she meets on her trip. More info here >
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/march-break-films-the-boy-and-the-beast/
LOCATION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, 2 Bloor St. East\, 3rd Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 1A8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Directed by Japanese Women: MEGANE
DESCRIPTION:MEGANE めがね\nThursday March 15th\, 2018 1:00 PM > Also part of our MARCH BREAK FILMS! \n \nDirected by Naoko Ogigami\, 2007\n106 minutes\, Japanese with English subtitles \nIt’s early spring and still chilly when Taeko (Kobayashi Satomi) comes to a small seaside town on a southern island for some time off. There is no sightseeing spot on the island and people come here to “twilight”. \n \n  \nTaeko stays at “Hamada”\, which is run by Yuji (Mitsuishi Ken) who carries on at his own speed almost to a fault. People of distinctive character seem to gather at “Hamada”\, including Sakura (Motai Masako)\, a mysterious woman who every year comes from somewhere in the early spring\, and a high school teacher\, Haruna (Ichikawa Mikako)\, who drops by every day. \n \n  \nThere is also this intriguing exercise\, Merci taiso\, which the residents on the island do as part of their daily routine but only during the spring. \n  \nTaeko is bewildered with the life on the island which is completely out the norm for her\, but as she spends more time\, she begins to blend in with the slow pace on the island. The film portrays the main character who is tired of urban life but begins to look at herself through interaction with people on her trip. \nFilms also directed by Naoko Ogigami include Close Knit\, Rent-A-Cat\, Toilet\, Kamome Diner\, Go Go Haiku Girl and Yoshino’s Barber. \n  \nTo learn about other films in the DIRECTED BY JAPANESE WOMEN series\, click here > \n 
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/megane-naoko-ogigami/
LOCATION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, 2 Bloor St. East\, 3rd Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 1A8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:"Japanese Together" Information Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in joining one of our “Japanese Together” language courses?\nSpaces are available for Term 3 (April – July) of all levels of our term-based “Japanese Together” language courses! \nThis March\, we will open our doors for potential students to observe part of a lesson (30 min)\, which will be followed by a general information session about the program (approx. 15 min). If you would like to know more about how our classes are run\, or are not quite sure which level is right for you\, please feel free to join us! \n*Please make sure to register using the form below for the sessions you are planning to attend. \n\nInformation Sessions Schedule\n\n\n\n\nStarter* Course:\nJapanese Together 1\nTuesday\, March 20\n\n\nClass Observation: 2:00 – 2:30 pm*\n\n\nInformation session: 2:30 – 2:45 pm (approx.)\n\n\n\n\nPre-Intermediate Course:\n Japanese Together 4\nTuesday\, March 20\n\n\nClass Observation: 6:00 – 6:30 pm*\n\n\nInformation session: 6:30 – 6:45 pm (approx.)\n\n\n\n\nIntermediate Course:\n Japanese Together 5\nThursday\, March 22\n\n\nClass Observation: 6:00 – 6:30 pm*\n\n\nInformation session: 6:30 – 6:45 pm (approx.)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* As we are currently accepting registration for Term 3\, the Starter Course is already 2/3rds through the textbook. Those interested in starting from the beginning are welcome to observe the class but please note that the next time the course will be offered from Topic 1 is September 2018. \n** Latecomers may be refused entrance to the class observation to avoid disrupting the class. \nAs some of our courses can be of a seemingly similar level\, if you are not sure which level is right for you we invite you to try out other levels as well! \n\nWhat is “Japanese Together?”\nAt the Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, we offer term-based Japanese Together language courses using the textbook series Marugoto: Japanese Language and Culture\, which was developed by the Japan Foundation. Marugoto is a textbook based on the Japan Foundation Standard for Japanese Language Education (or “JF Standard” – for more information\, please click here). Through studying with us in our Japanese Together language courses\, you will learn to complete various “Can-do” in Japanese! \nWe offer courses for everyone from complete beginners (Japanese Together 1) to intermediate speakers(Japanese Together 5). \nNot sure which level is right for you?\nClick here for an online level checker which will guide you to see which “Japanese Together” course might be suitable for your current level. \nInquiries\nIf you have any questions\, please contact us at koza@jftor.org!
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/term3-infosession/2018-03-20/
LOCATION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, 2 Bloor St. East\, 3rd Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 1A8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Directed by Japanese Women: 0.5 mm
DESCRIPTION:For details and to register for DEAR DOCTOR click here >\n0.5 mm\nThursday March 22nd\, 2018 6:30 PM\n  \n\nDirected by Momoko Ando\, 2014\n196 minutes\, Japanese with English subtitles\nDirector Momoko Ando\, who drew attention at home and abroad with her debut film Kakera: A Piece of Our Life\, adapts her own novel in \n\nspired by her experiences of caring for an elderly relative. It explodes with rage at a society in which connections between people have grown thin. \nOne day\, home helper Sawa Yamagishi (Sakura Ando) unwittingly gets caught up in a serious incident and loses her job\, forcing her to move out of her company’s dormitory. Left with nowhere to live\, she wanders the streets in search of old men with various predicaments\, and inserts herself into their lives to become their helper\, whether they like it or not… \n2014 JAPAN CUTS\n2015 Udine Far East Film Festival \nFor details and to register for DEAR DOCTOR click here > \nTo learn about other films in the DIRECTED BY JAPANESE WOMEN series\, click here > \n  \n \n 
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/0-5mm-momoko-ando/
LOCATION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, 2 Bloor St. East\, 3rd Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 1A8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Artist's Talk by Takahiro Kondo
DESCRIPTION:  \nTakahiro KONDŌ\nCeramic Artist \n \nThroughout his career\, Takahiro KONDŌ has striven to determine his own independent artistic identity through extensive experimentation. Born in Kyoto into a family celebrated for its traditional sometsuke (cobalt blue-and-white porcelain)\, he first began working with the challenging medium of porcelain and it has remained his principal material. As a young man he was a competitive sportsman\, becoming a champion in table tennis and traveling abroad for competitions. Despite his exposure to clay at an early age\, he did not seriously consider pursuing a career related to his family’s art until he was in his twenties. \n  \nKONDŌ’s early work followed the sometsuke tradition mastered by his grandfather and father and\, like them\, he was highly influenced by the work and writings of Tomimoto Kenkichi (1886-1963)\, who stressed the importance of balancing technique with originality. He quickly developed his own style and began to incorporate other media into his work\, starting with metal then adding cast glass. This early experimentation resulted in his unique and highly distinctive “silver mist” (gintekisai) glaze\, which is an amalgam of platinum\, gold\, silver and glass frit that ranges in appearance from a subtle shimmer to a stream of molten drops that cling and pool over the porcelain surfaces. \n  \nWater has been his principal theme for many years and he has explored not only its physical forms such as rain\, ice\, steam\, and mist\, but also its conceptual aspects as a source of life\, purifier\, natural resource\, and\, most currently\, as a critical environmental issue in regards to the nuclear disaster in Fukushima. KONDŌ was deeply affected by the natural disasters that befell Japan in 2011 and has incorporated his thoughts and feelings on the subject into most of his work since then. He continues to spend substantial time fund-raising and working with those residing in the areas most devastated by those cataclysmic events. \nIn conjunction with Year of Japan of the Gardiner Museum\nFree admission\, Reservation Required: \nIn Japanese with English interpretation \n416.966.1600 x.229\, or scroll below \n \n 
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/takahiro-kondo/
LOCATION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, 2 Bloor St. East\, 3rd Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 1A8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lady Snowblood
DESCRIPTION:LADIES OF BURLESQUE + THE JAPAN FOUNDATION PRESENTS:\n \nLADIES OF BURLESQUE PRESENTS – LADY SNOWBLOOD – TRAILER from Nathan Boone on Vimeo. \n\nLADY SNOWBLOOD 修羅雪姫\n\n\n\n\n1973 / 97 min. / 18A\nDIRECTOR: Toshiya Fujita\nCAST: Meiko Kaji\, Toshio Kurosawa\, Masaaki Daimon\n\n\n7:30 PM – Pre-show  \n8:00 PM – Film start\n\nPurchase Tickets here >\n\n  \nBlood will flow\, spurt\, and stain your beautiful kimono as Ladies of Burlesque and our amazing co-presenter Japan Foundation Toronto transport you to the Meiji period of 19th century Japan with LADY SNOWBLOOD—that film Quentin Tarantino paid homage to (read: egregiously ripped off) for his KILL BILL diptych. With a traditional kata sword demonstration from the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre’s Mu Mon Kai Iaido Club performed before the film\, this screening promises to mesmerize on screen and off. \nBadass babe Meiko Kaji is Yuki\, a trained assassin out to avenge the rape of her mother. Born in a prison and with her mother dying in childbirth\, Yuki is trained by a priest in the art of vengeance by way of impressive sword skills. Setting out to assassinate the three men who violated her mother (any one of them being her father) and murdered her mother’s husband\, Yuki hunts them down one-by-one\, utilizing her expert training. Amidst the red spotted-snow of Japan\, LADY SNOWBLOOD is a stunning work of film artistry. Even when hyperbolic bloodshed reigns\, it never loses its nuanced sophistication. \nKaji\, as Yuki—in a role adapted specially for her from Kazuo Koike’s popular manga—is astounding. Un-sexualized\, and completely in control\, her performance is legendary and set the gold standard for determined\, demagogue manslayers. A popular songstress in Japan\, she also sang several of the songs featured in the film\, including “Shura no Hana” (aka “Flowers of Carnage”)\, which Tarantino used to great effect in KILL BILL: VOL. ONE\, with its O-Ren Ishii/The Bride snowy showdown. Don’t miss your chance to see the original female assassin on the big screen! \nThis Ladies of Burlesque screening is co-presented by Japan Foundation\, Toronto \nLive blade Tameshigiri demonstration by senior members of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre’s Iaido Club\, Mu Mon Kai.
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/lady-snowblood/
LOCATION:The Royal Cinema\, 608 College Street\, Toronto\, ON\, M6G 1B4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180328T183000
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SUMMARY:Directed by Japanese Women: DEAR DOCTOR
DESCRIPTION:Dear Doctor\nWednesday March 28nd\, 2018 6:30 PM\n \nDirected by Miwa Nishikawa\, 2009\n127 minutes\, Japanese with English subtitles\nThe third film from Miwa Nishikawa\, whose previous film Sway swept many domestic film awards and garnered attention at the Cannes film festival. A novel she herself wrote\, bated on the idea of this film\, was nominated for the Naoki Prize. This sincere\, humanistic drama takes a scalpel to the timely theme of rural medical treatment against a beautiful pastoral backdrop. Rakugo storyteller Tsurube Shofukutei\, who has branched out into acting in recent years\, gives a highly empathetic performance in his first lead role\, as a doctor beloved by the village residents he treats. A small mountain village. Its sole and beloved doctor Ino (Shofukutei) suddenly vanises. An investigation gets underway but nobody\, including medical intern Keisuke Soma (Eita) who had arrived in town two months prior\, has any idea of Ino’s true identity. Just before disappearing\, Dr. Ino had examined a widow named Kazuko (Kaoru Yachigusa). Upon learning of her terminal condition\, Kazuko beseeched Ino to lie about it\, but before long Ino’s own secret was exposed. \nTo learn about other films in the DIRECTED BY JAPANESE WOMEN series\, click here > \n 
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/dear-doctor-miwa-nishikawa/
LOCATION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, 2 Bloor St. East\, 3rd Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 1A8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
ORGANIZER;CN="The Japan Foundation%2C Toronto":MAILTO:info_jftoronto@jpf.go.jp
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